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Archive for July, 2009
Chipmunk
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Success
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
- Sir Winston Churchill
Bumptop
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
If you haven’t already, check out Bumptop.
Especially if you are sick of your 2D desktop.
Because they have created the first ever 3D desktop, where you have walls for putting up pictures, notes and icons, you can group piles of documents together, and loads more.
Great for anyone with a messy desktop, who is looking for a fun and practical solution.
Above is my desktop, after being Bumptop-ified. Very funky.
Check them out. Bumptop.
Grid
Friday, July 10th, 2009This video has certainly been doing the rounds, and with good reason.
Some of the ideas in here are really nice, and it is always good to see people work together to make something brilliant.
My favourite bit happens between the 0:58 to 1:30 mark. Enjoy!
Something else cool to note is that the people in the video were picked from the fan base of this band – great way to engage and reward your most loyal followers.
Oh, and with over 400,000 views of the video in the nine days since the video went up, not a bad way to get your name out to a lot more people too.
Darwin
Friday, July 10th, 2009Sometimes it is the least likely place that supplies some great creativity.
Today it came from my sandwich box.
I bought a sandwich from the sandwich lady, and while eating it, started reading the box that the sandwich came in.
And I am glad I did.
Here is what I saw (yes, I did get weird looks taking a photo of an empty sandwich box).
I liked this for three reasons:
- The image, parodying the iconic evolution image, is nice for a reason I can’t quite put my finger on
- The alliteration of Darwin’s Deli (alliteration has always appealed to me)
- The tagline ‘The Natural Selection’ ties perfectly in with the Darwin brand theme, and highlights the natural nature of the sandwich
If you thought their work was tasty too, check them out here.
Fan
Thursday, July 9th, 2009No, that post is not because I am a fan of London’s famed Tube system (I was initially, but constant strikes tend to kill the passion).
The title for this post was more literal than that, as (via Ben and James) I have come across a simple idea that I am surprised hasn’t been done before, when you see the hundreds of different Tube-branded items available on every London street corner.
Quite cool.
Pianos
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Luke Jerram, an artist from the UK, has set up Street Pianos in London for the next few weeks.
With the tagline ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’, here is how the Street Pianos website is described:
Presented for Sing London and the City of London Festival, 30 street pianos have been installed on streets, in public squares and parks, train stations, and markets. Like a creative blank canvas, the pianos are there for any member of the public to play and engage with. The pianos will be in place until July 13th, after which time they’ll be donated to local schools and community groups.
I love ideas like this, and found myself yesterday with the opportunity to play the piano in Moorgate (in the above picture), after my bus broke down just twenty metres from the piano.
And play I did – not at all well, as the only thing I know how to play is the MacGyver TV show theme tune, but it was great fun, nonetheless.
If you are in London, make sure you search out a piano, and belt out a tune or three. There is something quite liberating about it.
Photo courtesy of Street Pianos website gallery
